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Bridget Conley-Zilkic of the Committee on Conscience hosts a discussion with David Rieff on the subject of genocide and humanitarian response. David Rieff is a consultant for several humanitarian organizations and has written on a range of topics, including war, human rights, and immigration.

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Peter Bell, President of CARE USA, provides a report on his recent trip to northern and southern Sudan. Central to his findings is the positive influence of the peace process. He addresses the ways the peace talks have influenced humanitarian aid access and the opinions of people he was able to speak with. He contrasts this visit with one he took three years ago and emerges cautiously optimistic.

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After the succession of crises in the 1990s in places such as Bosnia, Rwanda, and Kosovo, where policymakers grappled with whether and how to respond to genocide and threats of genocide, there seemed to be a broadly held view that preventing genocide is in America’s national interest. This symposium takes the next step by considering how this interest relates to other national interests and how it can be promoted realistically in the future.

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Experts on justice and human rights in Guatemala discuss the cases of former presidents General Romeo Lucas Garcia and General Efrain Rios Montt, who are being tried in domestic courts for crimes against humanity and genocide. Monday, September 10, 2001